You might worry, for example, that smart contracts and programmable currency would legalize all gambling in a way governments couldn't regulate. But the only thing you could gamble on is other transactions on the blockchain. There's no way to find out the score of a soccer game
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This mixture of solipsism, pointlessness, and being hermetically sealed off from information about the real world while also ruining it nicely mirrors the cryptocurrency culture itself. It's like those people who start to resemble their pets.
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Major investors are all smart enough to understand this disqualifying flaw with smart contracts, but are pouring money into the exercise anyway, for the same reason that mobsters once poured money into an empty patch of Nevada desert. Unregulated gambling is lucrative as hell
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The rest of us should remember that the existence of a thriving ecosystem around the purchase and sale of magic beans does not imply the existence of a beanstalk
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For those still confused but ashamed to ask: NFTs are basically just like buying a special sword in World of Warcraft, except without the game and also without the sword
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I hope whoever taught the kind of people who were flipping homes in 2007 about hash functions has their life savings on the blockchain
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I think I'm angriest about NFTs because it's a kind of low-volume bookmarking that makes other people rich
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Wait wait wait! You can’t just hash the photons? (Whispers in ear) The fungability of photons is a fundamental principle of the physical world?!?! Who knew.
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actually, there's only one photon so it isn't distinct anyway
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Unless your work has extremely low Kolmogorov Complexity, and can be embedded in the token’s payload. Poetry counts, technically, if you’re a shill who believes the English language isn’t centrally controlled
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Even then, we're all subjects to the whims of the UTF8 committee
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